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I have multiple invite codes for both Dreamwidth and Archive Of Our Own. Comment below with your e-mail and which type (or both) of code if you want one; comments are screened.
AO3 is an awesome multifandom archive. It's easy to upload fics; the tagging system is frankly awesome, particularly for readers who want to find new fics to read. The collections feature is great; so is the series feature. And if you want to run a fic exchange, the Archive provides software to handle signups and matching, and automated checks on who has fulfilled their assignment and who hasn't. Basically, as both a reader and writer of fanfic, AO3 is my absolute favorite archive for a lot of reasons. And, it's built, maintained, and owned solely by fans for fans!
Dreamwidth is similar enough to LJ to make the transition easy, except that Dreamwidth is run by people who actually give a damn about following their own ToS and about their users privacy and wishes. They've pledged themselves to transparency, both business-wise and code-wise, and so far they're doing a darn good job of it. (Remember Strikethrough? When a nutty group out to Save the Children complained to LJ and its advertisers, and got many accounts suspended or deleted without warning, among which were a support group for incest survivors and a book discussion group that was reading Lolita? Yeah, so does DW. So when they started getting pressure from a similar group, they stood their ground, even when it cost them money because it meant they had to switch banks twice in two months and have online payments down for about that long.) Plus, it's really, really easy to import all your stuff from LJ to DW using the DW importer, and it's also really easy to crosspost to LJ using the DW posting interface.
Both projects are open source, and both (particularly DW) make a point of nurturing new code developers, particularly those with little or no prior experience, so if you want to learn how to be a computer programmer, either project is a great way to start.
AO3 is an awesome multifandom archive. It's easy to upload fics; the tagging system is frankly awesome, particularly for readers who want to find new fics to read. The collections feature is great; so is the series feature. And if you want to run a fic exchange, the Archive provides software to handle signups and matching, and automated checks on who has fulfilled their assignment and who hasn't. Basically, as both a reader and writer of fanfic, AO3 is my absolute favorite archive for a lot of reasons. And, it's built, maintained, and owned solely by fans for fans!
Dreamwidth is similar enough to LJ to make the transition easy, except that Dreamwidth is run by people who actually give a damn about following their own ToS and about their users privacy and wishes. They've pledged themselves to transparency, both business-wise and code-wise, and so far they're doing a darn good job of it. (Remember Strikethrough? When a nutty group out to Save the Children complained to LJ and its advertisers, and got many accounts suspended or deleted without warning, among which were a support group for incest survivors and a book discussion group that was reading Lolita? Yeah, so does DW. So when they started getting pressure from a similar group, they stood their ground, even when it cost them money because it meant they had to switch banks twice in two months and have online payments down for about that long.) Plus, it's really, really easy to import all your stuff from LJ to DW using the DW importer, and it's also really easy to crosspost to LJ using the DW posting interface.
Both projects are open source, and both (particularly DW) make a point of nurturing new code developers, particularly those with little or no prior experience, so if you want to learn how to be a computer programmer, either project is a great way to start.
